05 Jul Buffett Bailed On IBM: Is Watson Next?
In the 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spaceship’s advanced cognitive computer, HAL — which is “foolproof and incapable of error” — suffers a malfunction that leads to the derailment of the mission. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has been commonly associated with the naming of HAL (attributable to movie myth), but in reality IBM’s enhanced